Blogger vs. LifeType vs. Serendipity vs. WikyBlog

General Features Blogger LifeType Serendipity WikyBlog
Version
N/A
1.2.6
1.1
1.5.4
Release Date
N/A
2008-01-31 (16 years ago)
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
2007-10-23 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
Author
Google Inc.
The LifeType Project
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
Josh Schmidt
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
GPL
BSD
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
No
Yes
Yes
No
Hosting Features Blogger LifeType Serendipity WikyBlog
Storage Quota
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No Spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Pornography
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Blogger LifeType Serendipity WikyBlog
Programming Language
N/A
PHP
PHP
PHP
Operating System
N/A
Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Webserver
N/A
Apache, IIS
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Apache, anything with PHP
Root Access
N/A
No
No
No
Other Requirements
N/A
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
MySQL
Datastorage Blogger LifeType Serendipity WikyBlog
Text Files
N/A
No
No
No
MySQL
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
No
Yes
No
Oracle
N/A
No
No
No
SQLite
N/A
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
N/A
No
No
No
Other
N/A
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
Anti-Spam Blogger LifeType Serendipity WikyBlog
Akismet Support
N/A
Plugin
Yes
No
Word Blacklist
No
Plugin
Yes
No
IP Ban List
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only
BadBehaviour, DNS Blacklists, Built-in Bayesian filter, auto-closing comments for old posts, hidden fields in comment input form
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
User Access Features Blogger LifeType Serendipity WikyBlog
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Audit Log
No
No
No
Yes
LDAP Authentication
N/A
No
Plugin
No
Other Authentication
N/A
The so-called "user data providers" allow LifeType to access user data from other sources transparently, be it an external application or an LDAP or ActiveDirectory directory
Support Blogger LifeType Serendipity WikyBlog
Commercial Support
No
Yes
Yes
No
Online Help
http://help.blogger.com/
http://wiki.lifetype.net
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://www.wikyblog.com/help
Issue Tracker
http://knownissues.blogspot.com/
http://bugs.lifetype.net
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikyblog/
Books
None
None
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
Blogging Features Blogger LifeType Serendipity WikyBlog
Categorization
None
Single
Multiple
Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Trackback
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
No
Send+Receive
Ping Service Support
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Protected Posts
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Blog by Email
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blog by SMS/MMS
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Blog API
Blogger data API
Atom, Blogger XMLRPC, metaWeblog, Movable Type
MovableType, Blogger
Post Editing Blogger LifeType Serendipity WikyBlog
Multi-paged posts
No
No
Yes
No
Spell Checker
Yes
No
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Undo
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comment Features Blogger LifeType Serendipity WikyBlog
Comment Layout
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
No
Yes
Yes
No
Gravatars
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Open-ID Support
None
Client
None
None
Extended Features Blogger LifeType Serendipity WikyBlog
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
No
Yes
Yes
No
Polls / Surveys
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Google Sitemap
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Workflow Blogger LifeType Serendipity WikyBlog
Content Approval
No
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Versioning
No
No
Yes
Yes
Article Publishing
simple
scheduled
scheduled
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Interoperability Blogger LifeType Serendipity WikyBlog
Content Import
none
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
Content Export
HTML via FTP/SFTP
Dump to RSS, Database export
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
No
No
Unknown
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration Blogger LifeType Serendipity WikyBlog
E-Mail Notifications
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
Yes
No
Yes
Web Statistics
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Blogger LifeType Serendipity WikyBlog
RSS 0.9x
No
Yes
Yes
No
RSS 1.0
No
Yes
Yes
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM 1.0
No
No
Yes
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting Blogger LifeType Serendipity WikyBlog
Podcast Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
No
ID3-Tag Editor
No
No
Yes
No
YouTube Support
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Converter
No
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
No
Plugin
No
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